Ralph Sheldon Mansfield, 4th Baron Sandhurst, OBE (19 July 1892 – 1964) was the son of

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. Mansfield became 4th

Baron Sandhurst Baron Sandhurst, of Sandhurst in the County of Berkshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 28 March 1871 for the soldier Sir William Mansfield, Commander-in-Chief of India between 1865 and 1870 and Command ...

upon the death of his father, John William Mansfield, the 3rd Baron Sandhurst, in 1933.

Biography

He was educated at

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and

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Military service

During

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

he served with the

Royal Engineers The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the ''Sappers'', is a corps of the British Army. It provides military engineering and other technical support to the British Armed Forces and is heade ...

Signal Service, and was made OBE in 1918. In 1939 he was commissioned as a Major in the

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in 1939 and worked for

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Family

He married Morley Victoria Upcher (died 17 June 1961), daughter of Edward Berners Upcher, on 8 February 1917. They had three children: * Valerie Mansfield (25 December 1918 - 3 August 1994), who in 1938 married George Parker, Viscount Parker * John Edward Terence Mansfield, 5th Baron Sandhurst (born 4 September 1920) * Ralph Geoffrey Knyvet Mansfield (born 8 November 1926)

Arms

References

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